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Educational Oases in the Desert

The Alliance Israelite Universelle's Girls' Schools in Ottoman Iraq, 1895-1915

By: Jonathan Sciarcon

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Educational Oases in the Desert

The Alliance Israelite Universelle's Girls' Schools in Ottoman Iraq, 1895-1915

By: Jonathan Sciarcon

During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the Alliance Israélite Universelle (AIU), a Paris-based Jewish organization, founded dozens of primary schools throughout the Middle East. Many were the first formal educational institutions for local Jewish children. In addition to providing secular education, the schools attempted to change local customs and "regenerate" or "uplift" communities. Educational Oases in the Desert explores the largely forgotten history of the AIU's schools for girls in Ottoman Iraq. Drawing on extensive archival research, Jonathan Sciarcon argues that teachers viewed female education through a gendered lens linked to their understanding of an ideal modern society. As the primary educators of children, women were seen as society's key agents of socialization. The AIU thus concluded that its boys' schools would never succeed in creating polished, westernized men so long as women remained uneducated, leading to the creation of schools for girls. Sciarcon shows how headmistresses acted not just as educators but also as models of modernity, trying to impart new moral and aesthetic norms onto students.

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State University of New York Press

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1438465866

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9781438465869

Jews in Suits

Men's Dress in Vienna, 1890-1938

By: Jonathan C. Kaplan-Wajselbaum

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Jews in Suits

Men's Dress in Vienna, 1890-1938

By: Jonathan C. Kaplan-Wajselbaum

Surviving photographs of Jewish Viennese men during the fin-de-siècle and interwar periods both the renowned cultural luminaries and their many anonymous coreligionists all share a striking sartorial detail: the tailored suit. Yet, until now, the adoption of the tailored suit and its function in the formation of modern Jewish identities remains under-researched. Jews in Suits uses a rich range of written and visual sources, including literary fiction and satire, 'ego-documents', photography, trade catalogues, invoices, and department store culture, to propose a new narrative of men, fashion, and their Jewish identities. It reveals that dressing in a modern manner was not simply a matter of assimilation, but rather a way of developing new models of Jewish subjectivity beyond the externally prescribed notion of 'the Jew'. Drawing upon fashionable dress, folk costume, religious dress, avant-garde, oppositional dress, typologies which are often considered separate from one another, it proposes a new way of reading men and clothing cultures within an iconic cultural milieu, offering insights into the relationship of clothing and grooming to the understanding of the self.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1350244228

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9781350244221

The Last Kings of Shanghai

The Rival Jewish Dynasties That Helped Create Modern China

By: Jonathan Kaufman

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The Last Kings of Shanghai

The Rival Jewish Dynasties That Helped Create Modern China

By: Jonathan Kaufman

In vivid detail... examines the little-known history of two extraordinary dynasties."--The Boston Globe "Not just a brilliant, well-researched, and highly readable book about China's past, it also reveals the contingencies and ironic twists of fate in China's modern history."--LA Review of Books An epic, multigenerational story of two rival dynasties who flourished in Shanghai and Hong Kong as twentieth-century China surged into the modern era, from the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist The Sassoons and the Kadoories stood astride Chinese business and politics for more than one hundred seventy-five years, profiting from the Opium Wars; surviving Japanese occupation; courting Chiang Kai-shek; and nearly losing everything as the Communists swept into power. Jonathan Kaufman tells the remarkable history of how these families ignited an economic boom and opened China to the world, but remained blind to the country's deep inequality and to the political turmoil on their doorsteps. In a story stretching from Baghdad to Hong Kong to Shanghai to London, Kaufman enters the lives and minds of these ambitious men and women to forge a tale of opium smuggling, family rivalry, political intrigue, and survival.

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Penguin

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0735224439

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9780735224438

Educational Oases in the Desert

The Alliance Israelite Universelle's Girls' Schools in Ottoman Iraq, 1895-1915

By: Jonathan Sciarcon

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The Alliance Israelite Universelle's Girls' Schools in Ottoman Iraq, 1895-1915

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Educational Oases in the Desert

Educational Oases in the Desert

Jews in Suits

Jews in Suits

The Last Kings of Shanghai

The Last Kings of Shanghai

Educational Oases in the Desert

Educational Oases in the Desert

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